Life Today in Improbable Stories About People and Animals
posted by on May 29 at 13:41 PM
Last week, this (11-year-old) kid allegedly killed this (9-foot-4, 1,000-pound) boar:
It was in the Alabama woods. The (eleven-year-old) kid shot it with a .50-caliber revolver. Not a rifle. A pistol.
Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3 when he bagged Hogzilla II. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50- caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot.
“I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited,” said Jamison, who just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school. His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast with 5-inch tusks decided to charge.
Some say the photo is doctored, but at least one expert (if a guy from Field and Stream counts as an expert) is siding with the boy: “‘There’s always gonna be naysayers in situations like this,’” [Kirk] Deeter said. “‘My gut reaction is it’s an enormous hog. An 11-year-old kid shot a 1,051-pound pig.’”
(Lest you think American hunters have cornered the market in human-on-boar cruelty, here’s a story from today’s Newcastle Sunday Sun: “Wild boars set free by animal rights activists have ended up savaging each other to death.”)
Tomorrow in Improbable Stories About People and Animals: The bestiary in Surat, India where, according to an account written by a 19th-century traveler in a periodical called The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction: “At my visit, the hospital contained horses, mules, oxen, sheep, goats, monkeys, poultry, pigeons, and a variety of birds, with an aged tortoise, who was known to have been there for seventy-five years. The most extraordinary ward was that appropriated to rats, mice, bugs, and other noxious vermin. The overseers of the hospital frequently hire beggars from the streets, for a stipulated sum, to pass a night among the fleas, lice, and bugs, on the express condition of suffering them to enjoy their feast without molestation.”
"He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50- caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot."
It's nice to see 11 year old boys running around shooting the shit out of large animals.
how did they position 1000 lbs of pig into that pose? w/ a crane? second-of-ly i seriously doubt that a father would just sit there with a rifle when his child is running through the woods shooting king hog w/ a pistol, though .50 is a huge gun.
"...he and the guides..."??? Was this a store-bought Dick Cheney-like "hunting trip" that the pint-sized mighty hunter was on?
Dear GAWD that's a lot of bacon. mmmmmm, bacon.
20 yrs from now when that kid sees a ham sandwich hes going to say "if i see 1 more fucking ham sandwich!..."
Has anyone told Bjork yet?
Yee-haw! I jes kilt me somethin'. 'Scuse me while I go celebrate by fucking my wife/first cousin.
Banjoes, please.
This is precisely the kind of animal we'll be hunting, Kiley.
Be ready.
pray the hunters dont turn on whiners
Someone from SAM, please commission me. A paper-mache rendering of the boy and boar for the sculpture park!
Good for him! I personally don't like shooting living things, but to each their own. And I love how #7 thinks that the kid must be a dipshit redneck because he went hunting with his father. Way to be self righteous, man.
surely the news is that there are still (or might still be) beasts this size roaming the planet, right? who cares who kills them? somebody please kill them all immediately.
the boy is not that big.
"I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school.
Hey, isn't one of the Ten Commandments 'Thou Shalt not Kill.'?
@13: Amen.
I'm a vegetarian, but if I saw a pig that big, I would desire its immediate dispatch to the great mud pit in the sky.
It also reminds me of Princess Mononoke, which in turn makes me want to vomit. Worms!
Be careful Sean Nelson, you might get caught in the crosshairs too after ordering the death of large beasts roaming the earth.
That's a whole lot of "The Chef Special" at Volterra.
Neal Stephenson included a graphic depiction of the Indian animal clinic, including the protagonist's participation as blood dispenser for the mosquitos and leeches in the 3rd Baroque Cycle novel, "The System of the World".
OK...so why didn't the kid have a hunting rifle? Is it common practice to go hunting with a pistol?
An unloaded .50 caliber rifle ways about 30 pounds and is about five feet long. One .50 caliber shell is about 5.5 inches long. I doubt an 11 year old could aim such a big gun.
Jebus, that must be some mutant 11 year old. Have any of you ever actually fired a .50-caliber pistol? It kicks like a mule. I can't imagine any 11 year old kid firing 8 rounds with one of those without breaking a wrist or dislocating a shoulder. Holy fuck! When I was that age, nobody sane would let me near anything more powerful than a .22 (thankfully).
The .50 cal pistol bullet is slightly smaller than a AA battery. Jesus. Hurrah, another animal defeated!
I'll say. Hunting, last I checked, is legal. He had adult supervision. I'm guessing he was properly licensed. The only story here is, sweet Jesus, that is one gigantic pig.
i would love to see that boar as a paper mache bust outside of the globe. mmmmmm....MEAT!
@22: I'm about the same weight as an 11 year old boy, and I've fired a .50 caliber. It's not that implausible.
The eight rounds were fired over a period of time.
In fact, he must have at least partially reloaded at some point in the chase.
This makes firing the hand-canon a lot more do-able.
The heft of the gun itself, especially with the added weight of the scope, will absorb some of the recoil, making it further do-able ;)
Nonetheless, even firing a .44 (much less a .50) hurts my wrists, even if I fire as few as six rounds in a row. & I'm a big dude.
The cartridge is bigger than a AA battery, the bullet is smaller:
http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/tb_gun-lg-1.jpg
That picture is definitely framed in a way that exaggerates the size of the animal - check out these images for a more accurate take on the (still massive) size.
I'm with #13. Jesus christ, if I saw a PIG that size walking through the woods I would totally shit my pants, scream like a little girl, and probably pass out.
Yeah, I would be scared shitless if I saw that thing in the woods. It looks like a hippo. Boars aren't especially known for their friendly disposition either.
If you take a closer look at the images you'll notice that the pistol the kid used has a custom grip, a 6" barrel and a big honking muzzle brake. That doesn't make it an easy gun to shoot, but the experience of firing the weapon would be much different than the stock .44s most of us (those of us who have done some shooting) have probably fired.
And no, neither the cartridge nor the bullet of a .50 caliber pistol round are remotely the same size as an anti-aircraft round. The smallest dedicated AA cannons are 20mm, which is about .75 caliber-- and the cartridges of those cannons are about the size and shape of a smallish beer bottle. The next size down of common AA guns is the "quad fifty", which is four .50 caliber machineguns on one carriage. Those fire .50 BMG ammo, which is about the size and shape of a cigar with a #2 pencil sticking out of one end of it. The .50 pistol round, on the other hand, is about the size and shape of a AA battery (a little longer).
So yes, big pistol. But really nothing on the scale of the military hardware you're comparing it to.
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